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On 2025-07-06 3:07 PM, moviePig wrote:
> On 7/5/2025 3:00 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> This video includes an extended video clip of a speech by Daniel Johnson
>> criticizing Islam and the Islamists who emphasize the violent rhetoric
>> of the Koran and will not allow the religion to modernize.
>>
>> Rant: I find YouTube channels made up of uncited video clips from
>> elsewhere tiresome. I cannot tell you how important the citation is.
>>
>> When was this speech made? It does not say. However, the speaker
>> references an opinion piece which I found on line written March 21,
>> 2013, so this speech took place perhaps a week later or so.
>>
>> It puts what the speaker says into context because this was the height
>> of the use of violence to intimidate speakers whose views on Islam are
>> unapproved. We're talking about attempted murder here.
>>
>> The speaker knew several such people at the time.
>>
>> I think we've forgotten how bad this period was in the UK.
>>
>> He also discusses an Islamic scholar who was head of a studies program
>> forced out and replaced with a far more doctrinaire Islamic scholar who
>> teaches the use of violence in Islam.
>>
>> It made me laugh when he pointed out the willingness of Christianity to
>> change and evolve, what with the Church reversing the doctrine in which
>> all Jews were blamed as Christ killers starting in the 12th century
>> "within my lifetime". Hahahahaha. If we wait enough centuries, progress!
>>
>> The speech by Daniel Johnson is presented in its entirety; the YouTuber
>> makes comments at the end.
>>
>> Daniel Johnson EVISCERATES Medhi Hasan With The Truth About Islam
>> (Muslim Crowd Stunned)
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbQOTpuHMM8
>>
>> The article I mentioned was this:
>>
>> The Sorry Truth Is That the Virus of Anti-Semitism Has Infected the
>> British Muslim Community
>>
>> It pains me to have to admit this but anti-Semitism isn't just tolerated
>> in some sections of the British Muslim community; it's routine and
>> commonplace. Any Muslims reading this article - if they are honest with
>> themselves - will know instantly what I am referring to. It's our dirty
>> little secret. You could call it the banality of Muslim anti-Semitism.
>>
>> By Mehdi Hasan
>> Al Jazeera English Presenter
>> HUFFPOSt
>> 21/03/2013 05:32am GMT
>> https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/anti-semitism-british- 
>> muslim-community_b_2922013.html
> 
> "Modernizing" religion flies in the face of its rationale.  Religion is 
> about faith and tradition, not vogue.
> 
> 
Which is exactly why Christianity hasn't changed in 2000 years, right?

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Rhino